Article August 8, 1983 Issue

Sprucing up the ugly duckling

GERTRUDE P. FOGEL

Today house transactions are often carried out on a tight budget. Inflation can shatter some people's hopes of ever owning a home. Many dream about buying a house in the future, maybe after retirement. A few folks tackle the job of renovating a deteriorated building. Can everyone have a place in the sun?

The Master, Christ Jesus, held a marvelous concept of home— of the infinite good that is of God. He said, "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you." John 14:2. Remarkable words of practical import!

Christian Science explains that our true home is a state of consciousness and not a particular locality or material possession. The mansion, or abiding place, we are to seek, then, must be the true conception of home as spiritual. Being the child of God, Mind, man is divine idea and includes home just as he includes every other right idea, along with God's qualities of happiness, love, substance, and the like. Therefore the true sense of being at home in God is available to all, everywhere, at all times.

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